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In [[computing]], '''floating-point arithmetic''' ('''FP''') is [[arithmetic]] on subsets of [[real number]]s formed by a [[Sign (mathematics)|signed]] sequence of a fixed number of digits in some [[Radix|base]], called a [[significand]], scaled by an integer [[exponent]] of that base.
Numbers of this form are called '''floating-point numbers
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